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(No Model.)

. J. O. WEINMAN.

HORSE COLLAR PASTBNER.

Patented July 28, 1896.

W/TNESSESZ %L ATTORNEY.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOSEPH C. W'EINMAN, OF BOONE, IOWA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO L. d: H. GOEPPINGER, OF SAME PLACE.

HORSE-COLLAR FASTENER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 564,671, dated July 28, 1896.

Application filed April 26, 1896.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH O. WEINMAN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, have invented a new and useful Horse- Collar Fastener, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in fasteners to separably hold together the lower end or throat of horse-collars, and the objects of my invention are, first, to provide a secure, strong, and easily-manipulated fastener of the kind mentioned, and, second, to provide a coupling of smooth and compact form that will meet the excessive bending strain which occurs both vertically and laterally at the connecting ends of the opposite parts of such fasteners. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front side view of the fastener coupled together and locked by the upper fold of the hame-strap, portions being cut away to show the manner of providing the martingale-loop and the lock. Fig. 2 is a view of the under side when the parts are coupled and the hame-strap removed. Fig. 3 is a perspective View of the coupling or joint end of part 2 inverted, and Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the coupling on the end of part 1.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

Primarily the fastener consists of parts 1 and 2, which, when coupled together, have their outer ends curved upward and their tops convexed crosswise, so that they fit in the groove between the belly and rim, at the lower end or throat of the collar, which is cut in halves coincident with the coupling of the parts, which are firmly attached to the halves of the collar by the screw-bolts 12 12, headedin the double washers 10 on the inside of the collar, and their threaded ends screwed into nuts seated in the nether surface of the parts hollowed out to reduce their weight. Instead of the nuts, in part 1 the martingaleloop 13 has its ends enlarged and tapped to receive the screw-bolts which retain the loop 50 within the hollow of the part and out of the Serial No. 588,336. (No model.)

way of the hame-strap and where it is not easily rubbed or broken off.

The coupling consists of a T-shaped overlap on part 2, consisting of the longitudinal stock 7, with its lower edge convexed crosswise, as shown in Fig. 3, and its top edge conforming to the convexed top of the parts, and the lateral branches 6 6, their lower face flush .with the lower edge of the stock and their ends and top conformed to and flush with the convened top of the parts which are seated in the groove of the collar. This forms the vertical slots 5 5' at each side of the stock and between the branches and main body of the part, the stock being less in width than the parts, and the combined length of the branches equal to the width of the body. The vertical depth of the T-shaped overlap is more than one-half the vertical depth of the body of the part. From the lower face'7o of the overlap, at the junction of the stock and branches, the cylindrical vertical stud 3 projects downward, its lower end flush with the nether surfaces of the body of the parts.

Part 1 is provided at its joint end with an underlap consisting of the shank 6 6, equal in width to and flush with the nether surface of the part, and having at its projecting end an upturned bifurcate hook, the bottom of the crotch 7 concaved to receive the convex lower edge of the stock 7, and the prongs '5 5 to slide up into and fill the vertical slots 5 5 at each side of the stock, the points and outer edges of the prongs conforming to and flush with the convexed top of the parts. The lateral slot above the shank 6 6, and between the prongs and the main body of part 1, receives the branches 6 6 of the T, and the vertical perforation 4 through the shank receives the cylindrical stud 3.

Flush with the end of the underlap on part 1 is the vertical downward-projecting rectangular loop 9, disposed across the part, theinclosing member cylindrical in cross-sec tion. A like loop 8 on and flush with the end 5 of the body of part 2 registers with loop 9, when the parts are coupled, to receive the upper fold of the hame-strap 11 to lock the coupling.

The bottom of'the stock 7, being rounded, 100

facilitates coupling, as it is not necessary to ment before the rounded bottom edge of the stock enters the top of the crotch and corrects the alinement, and as the vertical depth of the prongs and stock is greater than the length of the stud 3 the alinement is corrected before the stud reaches the aperture 4, and thus the coupling slides smoothly together, allowing the stud to fill the perforation 4: flush with the nether face of part 1 without stud or perforation being tapered. The vertical range of bearing, to resist any vertical bending strain on the coupling, is, by the use of a double coupling, consisting of the T and hook above, and the stud and perforation below, equal to the full vertical depth of the parts, thus requiring no vertical enlargement of the parts at their joint ends, and also allows the minimum variation of horizontal alinement to couple and uncouple.

It will be seen that the evenness of contour has been preserved without expense to the coupling, a smooth simple strong fastener being the result.

The locking-loops 8 and 9 are rounded, as also are the contiguous corners, so as not to cut the hame-strap. These loops as placed against each other serve also to strengthen the coupling against the strain caused by the spreading of the collar during draft, when the neck and shoulders of the animal are forced forward and into the same, tending to force the extreme tips of the parts outward. The whole coupling is thus, through its great depth of bearing, suited to resist this strain, a point where many of the open throat-collars are failing.

The width of the coupling being about equal ot the depth, and the bearing of the T-head and hook reaching clear across, the coupling is well suited to stand the lateral bending strain produced by the action of the shoulders as the animal travels.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a horse-collar fastener the combination of a part having an overlap flush WVltll its top, consisting of a stock of more than half the vertical depth of the part and convexed crosswise on its lower edge and having lateral branches and a vertical stud projecting down flush with the bottom of the part,

with another part having an underlap consisting of a shank flush with the bottom of the part and perforated through vertically to receive the stud, and at the end of the shank an upturned bifurcate hook to straddle the 2. In a horse-collar fastener the combination of two parts concaved lengthwise and convexed crosswise on top, to fit in the groove between the belly and the rim at the throat of a separable horse-collar, one part having an overlap consisting of a stock convexed crosswise on its lower edge, made flush with the top of and more than half the vertical depth of the part, and less in width than the part, said stock having lateral branches extending in lateral conformity to the sides of and flush with the convened top of the parts, and having a vertical stud projecting downward to flush with the nether face of the parts; the other part having an underlap consisting of a shank flush with the nether face of and equal in width to the part, a vertical perforation through the shank to receive the stud, and at the end of the shank an upturned bifurcate hook to straddle the stock and engage the branches, the prongs of the hook conformed to the convexed top of the parts, and the parts having vertical loops across at their joint ends to abut against each other and to receive the upper fold of the hamestrap substantially as described.

Signed at Boone, in the county of Boone and State of Iowa, this 15th day of April, 1896. r

JOSEPH C. VVEINMAN.

lVitnesses:

JOHN L. GOEPPINGER, A. MAR UART. 

